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Simon Hawketts' Photo Blog
Simon Hawketts' Photo Blog
A blog about photography and other things
  • Lemonade bottle after shower
    National Trust

    Lemonade bottle after a shower

    25 March 201827 February 2023

    I’m continuing my archiving of photos to recover disk space, and I came upon this picture of a lemonade bottle sitting on a table which…

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  • Some PHP Code showing the use of Shortcodes
    Development

    Creating shortcodes in WordPress.

    17 March 2018

    This post is going to show how to create a Shortcode in WordPress. Introduction to Shortcodes Shortcodes in WordPress are a mechanism used to embed…

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  • ON1 Photo Raw Browsing Photos
    Reviews

    Evaluation of ON1 Photo Raw as a Lightroom user

    10 March 201827 February 2023

    Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been evaluating a copy of ON1 Photo Raw with the thought of switching to it from Lightroom and…

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  • Snowshill Manor on Film
    National Trust

    Snowshill manor on film

    4 March 201827 February 2023

    This is a picture which I took a couple of years ago of Snowshill manor on film; Specifically Fuji 400 Superia Xtra 400 film with…

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  • Development

    Using symlinks to aid wordpress plugin development

    2 March 2018

    This is a quick post to explain how I arrange my development environment and use symlinks to aid wordpress plugin development. Although it isn’t essential,…

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  • Linux

    Installing Ubuntu on an HP Pavilion Pro 14-bf102 laptop

    25 February 201827 February 2023

    This is a non photographic post which is really just a notice for anyone trying to find out if it is possible to install ubuntu…

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  • WordPress install process and DNS
    Development

    WordPress install process and DNS

    24 February 20181 March 2023

    In this, the final part of the wordpress install series, I’m going to walk through the famous wordpress 5 minute install, and also talk about…

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  • Development

    Adding wordpress autoload to plugin boilerplate

    17 February 2018

    The wordpress plugin boilerplate generator is a great site for creating a starting point of a new wordpress plugin, but by default when you generate…

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  • Installing WordPress – Apache web server configuration
    Development

    Installing WordPress – Apache web server configuration

    16 February 2018

    In this part of the Installing WordPress series we look at the WordPress Apache web server configuration files necessary to get your WordPress site on…

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  • Nginx web server configuration
    Development

    Nginx web server configuration

    11 February 2018

    In this, the third part of the series about installing wordpress, we cover WordPress web server configuration. This is the file you need to create…

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  • Picture of developer writing a php trait
    Development

    Installing WordPress – Database creation and configuration

    9 February 2018

    This article follows on from the last article I wrote and continues the theme of installing the wordpress software on your server. In the last…

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